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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: postpositive articles in English
- Message-ID: <11653@hogg.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 13:46:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.190026.937@almserv.uucp> <1992Nov19.215659.4152@memstvx1.memst.edu> <By0nyB.7nM@swi.psy.uva.nl> <1992Nov20.125429.4163@memstvx1.memst.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov20.125429.4163@memstvx1.memst.edu> connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
- >_Aplenty_ is not an adjective in any sense of the word: neither syntactically,
- >nor formally, not historically (it's an old PP). Neither, apparently, is
- >_galore_, though it's far from obvious what it would be.
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- _Galore_ comes from the Irish _go leo'r_ `enough' (lit. `to abundance',
- `to sufficiency', `to saturation' -- well, you get the idea; cf. Japanese
- _kekko^ ni_), so etymologically it, too, is a PP.
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